I have been awake looooong into the night lately, and it's not because I am fretting about living in a strange place, or staying up to surf the net. Nopes, my late nights have been consumed with Sujata Massey's The Sleeping Dictionary!

The memiors of a young servant-caste girl growing up in a monsoon- and war-ridden India has been difficult to put down. The bags under my eyes are keepsakes from long nights enmeshed in the boarding schools, brothels and political rallies of Culcutta and the surrounding areas.

The best (worst?) part of this book is that it is nearly 500 pages long; you don't have to part ways with the powerful protagonist for many, many nights!

That being said, I've finally come to the end, and several Kleenex-boxes later, I managed to write this short teaser. The Sleeping Dictionary is a great read; I highly reccommend it.